Archive for February, 2008
A TEAM of American and Ugandan doctors have carried out the first surgery in Africa to implant a device and restore the hearing of a patient at Mulago Hospital.
Chamber seeks nominations for board of directors vacancy
IN BRIAN FRIEL'S play Molly Sweeney at Pear Avenue Theatre, Dr. Rice (John Baldwin) returns sight to 49-year-old Molly Sweeney (Diane Tasca), blind from the age of 10 months.
The former NBC Nightly News anchor precedes CEO Steve Ballmer at Microsoft's big server event at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
A team of ear, nose and throat specialists and neurosurgeons at the University Hospital of Navarra, led by doctors Manuel Manrique Rodriguez, specialist in ear, nose and throat surgery and Bartolome Bejarano Herruzo, specialist in paediatric neurosurgery, have successfully operated on a 13 month-old girl from Murcia, who had been born deaf due to the lack of auditory nerves.
Surgeons have successfully operated on a 13 month-old girl from Murcia, who had been born deaf due to the lack of auditory nerves. She is the youngest patient in the world who has received an auditory implant in the brain stem.
New test measures music perception in cochlear-implant users.
Saturday, March 1|Let's Dance! FITNESS LET'S DANCE! SATURDAY, MARCH 1, Put your (most comfortable) dancing shoes on for the 25-hour Dance Marathon starting at noon at the Recreation Center at Florida International University, 11290 SW 13th St., West Miami-Dade. Annual event benefits the Miami Children's Hospital Foundation. $5 per person. 305-348-2149 or fiu.edu/~dm.
FITNESS TRIM IN ¾ TIME MONDAY, MARCH 3, Waltz and get into shape with Beginner Ballroom Class 7:30 p.m. at the Best of Times Dance Studio, 6255 SW Eighth St., Miami. Ready for a more advanced class? Check out the 9 p.m. intermediate lessons. $15 for each class. 305-269-0335.
FITNESS ALL THAT JAZZ TUESDAY, FEB. 26, Dance into shape with Jazzercise 6 p.m. at Doral Park, 5300 NW 102nd Ave., Doral. It's $35 for a month's worth of classes (also meets 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and 10 a.m. Saturdays). 305-989-4814.
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